Rush Limbaugh interview Erik Erickson for the February 2016 isssuuue of the Limbaugh Letter. In the interview, Erickson actually said in answer to about Christian persecution: “Well, not in ways that we see overseas. No one here is going to be beheaded because they’re a Christian.”
So his powers of observation are .... ?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/muslim-accused-of-beheading-2-christians-in-u-s/
Erickson grew up outside of the US and has no real first-hand knowledge of national politics.